A new report just published on Australia’s digital future to 2050. A lot of it is ‘predictable’ prediction but there are some points raised that highlight Australia’s future need to shift it’s economic focus from the export of mineral resources to the export of service resources such as education and training and tourism. The full report can be downloaded here.
Tony Hughes - Tony Hughes has worked in multi-media, and digital media consulting and project development for over twenty years. He has written extensively on digital media topics and has been published in leading journals including the International Journal of Education and has been a speaker at such events as the BASELT Conference (UK), The International Education Marketing Conference (Geneva), NAFSA (USA), and The ARELS Conference (UK). He has designed and delivered digital media development, communications, cross-cultural, and ’soft-skills’ training programs to clients in Germany, the USA, Scotland, and England. Since 1995 he has worked on digital media projects for e-learning and educational marketing and has provided leading organizations with consultancy regarding ‘best use’ of the Internet for marketing, online learning and training, delivery of courses, and online recruitment. He is CEO of praxMatrix, an online learning and digital media consultancy organisation with offices in Europe and Australia. He is a regular speaker at international conferences (see this website for list of speaking engagements) and frequently contributes commentary and articles on digital media and online learning topics to both national and inernational publications. He is a member of DERN (the Digital Education Research Network) and AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education).
